clap
拍手,拍拍手,鼓掌,拍掌
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Definitions
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clapped, clap·ping.
- : to strike the palms of against one another resoundingly, and usually repeatedly, especially to express approval: She clapped her hands in appreciation.
- : to strike amicably with a light, open-handed slap, as in greeting, encouragement, or the like: He clapped his friend on the back.
- : to strike against something quickly and forcefully, producing an abrupt, sharp sound, or a series of such sounds: to clap a book on the table.
- : to bring together forcefully: She clapped the book shut.
- : to applaud by clapping the hands: The audience clapped the actors at the end of the act.
- : to put or place quickly or forcefully: Can you clap a lid on that jar? She clapped her hand over his mouth.They clapped him in jail.
- : to make or arrange hastily: He clapped together dinner from stuff in the pantry and leftovers from the fridge.
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clapped, clap·ping.
- : to clap the hands, as to express approval; applaud: After the audience stopped clapping, the tenor sang two encores.
- : to make an abrupt, sharp sound, as of flat surfaces striking against one another: The shutters clapped in the wind.
- : to move or strike with such a sound: She clapped across the room in her slippers.
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- : an act or instance of clapping.
- : the abrupt, sharp sound produced by clapping.
- : a resounding blow; slap.
- : a loud and abrupt or explosive noise, as of thunder.
- : a sudden stroke, blow, or act.
- : Printing. clapper.
- : Obsolete. a sudden mishap.
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- : clap back, Slang. See entry at clapback.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The pocket shape “dramatically improves the clap by trapping more air and creating a stronger jet.”
Researchers thought the wing clap likely formed a pocket of air that shoots out like a jet.
Previous research had suggested that a butterfly’s overhead wing clap forces the insect forward.
Researchers thought they knew how the clap worked, he notes.
He once joked to The Washington Post that it was “a little bit like saying you have the clap.”
Which is why you should: “Clap along, if you feel like a room without a roof.”
The music drifted through the rain and the woman started to clap her hands and dance.
Like, clap-my-hands-together-in-schoolgirl-like-glee over the moon to see it.
No one applauded–rare on a night when hands tend to clap after every cough and sneeze.
Everyone stood up to clap in his honor, including Mao himself.
"We have a grandfather in Greenfield," spoke up the youngest child before his sister could clap her hand over his mouth.
But ten thousand saw Musa's hand clap to hilt, and Iftikhar's lance half fall to rest.
Viscount Melbourne expressed himself to the effect that the Earl of Ripon's motion came like a thunder-clap upon him.
You had a very fair clap-trap against us, as we happened to be master manufacturers, in saying that we wanted to reduce wages.
You can't clap a new head on to old shoulders without upsetting circulation and equilibrium.